U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, a Biden appointee, issued a 59-page order on August 27 vacating the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk and directing rescission of related guidance. The ruling found violations of the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, citing an absence of evidence for the designation. Anthropic's lawsuit alleged that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth exceeded authority in the first public application of such a label to a U.S. company.